direct是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. /ad. 径直的(地) v. 管理， 指导； (at， to) 指向，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was walking with three friends, who left him only at the gate, and he asked the porters to direct him, in the pres-ence of the friends.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One said she lived in the South Foreland Light,and had singed her whiskers by doing so; another, that she was 182made fast to the great buoy outside the harbour, and could only bevisited at half-tide; a third, that she was locked up in MaidstoneJail for child-stealing; a fourth, that she was seen to mount abroom, in the last high wind, and make direct for Calais.
-- She seemed to think she had quite settled the question, and gaveme such a triumphant little kiss, direct from her innocent heart,that I would hardly have put her out of conceit with her answer,for a fortune.
-- In the trouble of this state of mind- not exclusively my own, I hope,but known to others- I went down to Norwood that night; andfinding from one of the servants, when I made my inquiries at thedoor, that Miss Mills was there, got my aunt to direct a letter to her,which I wrote.
-- 'Dear Agnes,' I said, 'it is presumptuous for me, who am sopoor in all in which you are so rich- goodness, resolution, all noblequalities- to doubt or direct you; but you know how much I loveyou, and how much I owe you.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had heard, as soon as she got back to Mrs. Goddard's, that Mr. Martin had been there an hour before, and finding she was not at home, nor par-ticularly expected, had left a little parcel for her from one of his sisters, and gone away; and on opening this parcel, she had actually found, besides the two songs which she had lent Elizabeth to copy, a letter to herself; and this letter was from him, from Mr. Martin, and contained a direct pro-posal of marriage.
-- It was most convenient to Emma not to make a direct reply to this assertion; she chose rather to take up her own line of the subject again.
-- 'My dear sir, upon no account in the world; my father can direct me.'
-- And Miss Bates was obliged to give a direct answer be-fore he would hear her in any thing else.
-- Mrs. Weston undertakes to direct the whole.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.
-- Oak resolved to sleep at Weatherbury that night on his way to Shottsford, and struck out at once into the high road which had been recommended as the direct route to the village in question.
-- Round the corner of the largest stack, out of the direct rays of the fire, stood a pony, bearing a young woman on its back.
-- Liddy, you may as well bring me my desk and I'll direct it at once."
-- He had a quick comprehension and considerable force of character; but, being without the power to combine them, the comprehension became engaged with trivialities whilst waiting for the will to direct it, and the force wasted itself in useless grooves through unheeding the comprehension.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not know that the relation of my disasters will be useful to you; yet, when I reflect that you are pursuing the same course, exposing yourself to the same dangers which have rendered me what I am, I imag-ine that you may deduce an apt moral from my tale, one that may direct you if you succeed in your undertaking and console you in case of failure.
-- I was their plaything and their idol, and something better their child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me.
-- Not that, like a magic scene, it all opened upon me at once: the information I had obtained was of a nature rather to direct my endeavours so soon as I should point them to-wards the object of my search than to exhibit that object already accomplished.
-- 'But how was I to direct myself?
-- But it refreshed me and filled me with such agreeable sensations that I resolved to prolong my stay on the water, and fixing the rudder in a direct position, stretched myself at the bottom of the boat.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew what he wanted, and when Gerald wantedsomething he gained it by taking the most direct route.
-- It was a simple plan, for, with Gerald's single-mindedness of purpose, her eyes were centered on the goal andshe thought only of the most direct steps by which to reach it.
-- Scarlett had made her plans to spend Christmas at Tara, but after Ashley's telegram came no power on earth, noteven a direct command from the disappointed Ellen, could drag her away from Atlanta.
-- They could notbreak the gray lines by direct assault and so, under cover of night they marched through the mountain passes in asemicircle, hoping to come upon Johnston's rear and cut the railroad behind him at Resaca, fifteen miles below Dalton.
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